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    This Rockhopper Penguin with its large chick was photographed on New Island in the Falkland Islands on my recent Southern Oceans trip with the Canon 300mm f/2.8 L IS II lens and the 1.4X III TC with the EOS-1D MIV. ISO 400. Evaluative metering at zero: 1/125 sec. at f/7.1 in Manual mode.

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    excellent, I love how the chick is cuddling with mom!
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    Nice image Arthur! I like the intimate contact between mom and chick, exposure, setting and head angles.

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    Cute shot. Love the calm demeanor of the subjects. Wish that little rock was not in front of the adult.

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    Artie, I like the IQ here a lot. and nice poses. details in blacks look great.

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    Such an intimite picture of the parent and the chick. Excellent IQ details and sharpness. "They are so cute'" wife says.

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    Nice image - I could see this in a book about penguines or wildlife of the Falkland Islands. Did you do any post work to bring out the eye colour in both birds? Just interested. Yougster seems to have a full crop.

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    Hi Tom, I did not use any Chinese fry pans but I do some Digital Eye Doctor work on the eyes of many of my Avian images (but try not to over-do it). Do the eyes look natural to you?
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    Yes they do - I thought I had fixed the wok.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tom Rambaut View Post
    Yes they do - I thought I had fixed the wok.
    Thanks. It is easy to over-do those eyes. I do the pupils and the irises on separate layers and adjust the Opacity....
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    Real sweet intimate shot. Great low angle and habitat shown.

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    I really like the "family" shot the detail is outstanding and as ever the colours are superb. You mention the eyes, the detail is excellent, and I like to see them as they are. You asked do they look natural, I get the impression they look natural and perfectly "acceptable", but in the chick I suspect this amount of detail was not apparent to the naked eye -perhaps I am wrong??

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cheryl Molennor View Post
    Real sweet intimate shot. Great low angle and habitat shown.
    I am pretty sure that I was standing behind the tripod for this one; relatively long effective focal lengths (546mms here) reduce the angle of declination....
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jonathan Ashton View Post
    I really like the "family" shot the detail is outstanding and as ever the colours are superb. You mention the eyes, the detail is excellent, and I like to see them as they are. You asked do they look natural, I get the impression they look natural and perfectly "acceptable", but in the chick I suspect this amount of detail was not apparent to the naked eye -perhaps I am wrong??
    Did you mean that you'd like to see them as they were (in the RAW file)?

    It is important to remember in situations like this that when we correctly expose for the WHITEs that the middle tones are one stop under-exposed and the dark tones are close to two stops too dark. Folks who do not understand exposure theory as well as they should (or at all) simply do not understand this concept. The reality of it is that at least 95% of photographers including many who consistently produce excellent images so not have a good grasp of exposure theory. Period. I have a simple one question quiz that proves my point; fewer than one in 20 photographers gets it right even after some thought. Most screw it up completely and then make excuses..... The truth is that all of us should be able to answer the question in 1/10 of one second....

    The best coverage of exposure theory is in the original "The Art of Bird Photography" (soft cover). I often wish that the info there had been available in 1983; it took me more than ten years to get a grasp of things.
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    I understand what you are saying Artie regards exposure. All I am trying to ask is related to the eye which I understand would not necessarily be perfectly exposed when the whites are perfectly exposed. The reason I am asking is purely out of curiosity, when I enhance the eye detail I suspect I over enhance a little - tomorrow will perhaps prove my point when I post a woodpecker shot. I like the eyes in your image as presented, the question I am asking is really when you were there do you recall actually seeing that much detail in the eye or have you enhanced the eye to make a most pleasing shot.

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    Gotcha Jon. When I am in the field I am never looking for details in bird's eyes. I am sure, however, that there is more detail in the eyes of the birds in my optimized images than I would have seen in the field had I been looking. Why? The eyes of many birds are deep-set--see the eye of the adult bird here for a great example of that.... My main concern is to avoid having the eyes look like too-bright headlights; I did that with a few bears when I was first developing my Digital Eye Doctor techniques.
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    Thanks Artie - much appreciated.

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    Hoppers rock, and so does this family image. The eyes look fine to me, but as usually, when I am around you, I learn sometime new. My digital eye doctor's certificate comes from your work in Digital Basics, I did not think about using two layers, one on the pupils and one on the iris. Thanks for the refresher course.

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    Hi Artie, you have nailed the exposure on both mom and chick in this, and love the tender moment together. I like the sharp detail on both heads. What a trip you must have had.

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